This bit from the March 26 News-Star's Cityside section is wrong on at least two minor points. Let's set the record straight.
Point One: "Only in Rogers Park, a neighborhood of sniping bloggers, cheap half-pints and Lake Michigan breezes, can a civic gardening group be cast as political conspiracy-theorists threatening to overthrow the local government."
There is only one blogger in this neighborhood who believes that the Rogers Park Garden Group is a group of guerrillas training with tulip bulbs and weaponry, but the rest of the bloggers in Rogers Park know that he is nuttier than squirrel crap. Said nutty blogger shall go unnamed. The other 49th Ward bloggers are either supportive or indifferent regarding the RPGG.
For the record, The Bench is supportive of the Rogers Park Garden Group.
Point Two: "Born out of last year's contentious aldermanic runoff, the non-partisan Rogers Park Gardening Group is organizing a clean up of the fallow flower bed at the Metra train station starting at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 30, located at Greenleaf and Ravenswood. Volunteers are needed to remove trash, dead leaves and other debris in advance of site preparation for the planting that will take place in late May or early June."
Hmmm, waaay off the mark there. The RPGG was not "born out of" any election, or of any political anything for that matter. The Bench knows the origins, but must be careful how the story is told so as not to violate any confidential stuff, so we'll just give you the short version. Basically, two women got together and decided to start a garden group.
There you go. Nothing political. The beginnings of the RPGG overlapped with the timing of the aldermanic election, but that's just coincidence. No connection to politics there. For God's sake, they're just a bunch of nice folks trying to plant stuff.
Rogers Park Garden Conspirators
This bit from the March 26 News-Star's Cityside section is wrong on at least two minor points. Let's set the record straight.
Point One: "Only in Rogers Park, a neighborhood of sniping bloggers, cheap half-pints and Lake Michigan breezes, can a civic gardening group be cast as political conspiracy-theorists threatening to overthrow the local government."
There is only one blogger in this neighborhood who believes that the Rogers Park Garden Group is a group of guerrillas training with tulip bulbs and weaponry, but the rest of the bloggers in Rogers Park know that he is nuttier than squirrel crap. Said nutty blogger shall go unnamed. The other 49th Ward bloggers are either supportive or indifferent regarding the RPGG.
For the record, The Bench is supportive of the Rogers Park Garden Group.
Point Two: "Born out of last year's contentious aldermanic runoff, the non-partisan Rogers Park Gardening Group is organizing a clean up of the fallow flower bed at the Metra train station starting at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 30, located at Greenleaf and Ravenswood. Volunteers are needed to remove trash, dead leaves and other debris in advance of site preparation for the planting that will take place in late May or early June."
Hmmm, waaay off the mark there. The RPGG was not "born out of" any election, or of any political anything for that matter. The Bench knows the origins, but must be careful how the story is told so as not to violate any confidential stuff, so we'll just give you the short version. Basically, two women got together and decided to start a garden group.
There you go. Nothing political. The beginnings of the RPGG overlapped with the timing of the aldermanic election, but that's just coincidence. No connection to politics there. For God's sake, they're just a bunch of nice folks trying to plant stuff.
